Re: Database design

"x" <x_at_not-exists.org> wrote:

>"Mark Johnson" <102334.12_at_compuserve.com> wrote in message
>news:sl3ov157hunkrf9dgf4bq1v97dadh35ikc_at_4ax.com...

>> But the order of finish, is. A relation of those in the race might
>> suggest one, and not the other, won, placed and showed. But someone
>> might object, that's not an ordering, but simply an unordered
>> descriptive attribute. I would reply that it represents a proper
>> order.
>
>> But I would further suggest another example, in that case, the one
>> with which I began. A book. One paragraph does not go just anywhere. A
>> title cannot appear on page 6 if it properly belongs on page 34.
>> There's an ordering. There's a sort. Term it, partially ordered, if
>> one prefers.
>
>> And at what point would a relation of paragraphs, say, which would
>> include a sort attribute, have to be fairly termed an ordered
>> relation? Or is such simply defined out of the realm of possibility,
>> which makes it look like mere semantics, by the popular sense of the
>> term?

>Have you read any mathematical book about order ?

Did you read what I wrote, above? Received on Wed Feb 22 2006 - 19:57:25 CET